--- title: "What can Buildy do?" canonical: "https://www.buildy.ai/what-can-buildy-do" --- # What can Buildy do? Buildy is an AI website builder for small businesses. It builds your site, runs your ads, makes videos, answers calls with an AI Receptionist and keeps a CRM. The owner talks to Buildy in plain words in a project chat. Quoted lines below are example requests. Ads, social posts and broadcasts are saved as drafts, and nothing goes out until the owner approves it. ## Try asking Buildy - "Build a website for my bakery" - "Make a song ad for my spring sale" - "Which of my ads did best this month?" - "Set up my AI Receptionist" - "Make and schedule my Instagram posts for the week" - "Text every new lead right away" - "Write a blog article about my most popular service" - "Research my top 3 competitors" ## Highlights ### Build and publish your website Describe your business in chat. Buildy builds the site and hosts it. Click Publish to put it live. Say: "Build a website for my business". Guide: https://www.buildy.ai/docs/publish/publish-your-site ### Song ads A 30-second music video. Buildy writes the song, an animated character sings it, and the lyrics show as captions. Say: "Make a song ad for my business". Guide: https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/generate-videos ### Find your winning ads Buildy reads the results from your connected ad accounts and tells you which messages to test next. Say: "Which of my ads did best this month?". Guide: https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/analyze-marketing-performance ### An AI Receptionist for calls and texts It answers calls and texts on your Business Phone Number, takes messages and transfers callers to you. Say: "Set up my AI Receptionist". Guide: https://www.buildy.ai/docs/agents/ai-receptionist ### Call Buildy from your phone Call your Business Phone Number from your own phone. Buildy takes your request, and the work shows in your chat. Say: "How do I call Buildy from my phone?". Guide: https://www.buildy.ai/docs/agents/call-buildy-from-your-phone ### Follow-ups that email, text and call Every new contact gets emails, texts and AI phone calls in the order and timing you set. Say: "Set up follow-ups for new leads". Guide: https://www.buildy.ai/docs/agents/follow-ups ## Get customers with ads and social posts Ad networks: - Meta: Facebook and Instagram. People who are not searching yet. Guide: https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/meta-ads - Google: People who search for what you sell, plus YouTube and Gmail. Guide: https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/google-ads - TikTok: Vertical video and image carousels for a broad, younger audience. Guide: https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/tiktok-ads - LinkedIn: Buyers picked by job title, industry and company size. Guide: https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/linkedin-ads - X: Launches, news and timely offers. Guide: https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/x-ads - OpenAI: A card beside ChatGPT answers when people compare options. Guide: https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/openai-ads Requests: - Ads: "Create a Meta ad for my business" - Ads inside ChatGPT: "Create an OpenAI Ads campaign for my business" - Social posts: "Plan a week of social posts for my business" - Carousels: "Make a carousel post about my service" - Email and text broadcasts: "Draft an email to my contacts about this week's offer" - Blog articles: "Write a blog article about my most popular service" - Search ranking: "Improve my site's search ranking" - Campaign plan: "Plan an ad campaign for my business" ## AI videos and images Buildy makes the clips and edits them together with a song, a voiceover and captions. Each finished video lands in Images & Video. - Short videos: "Make a vertical video for Instagram Reels" - Voiceovers and captions: "Add a voiceover and captions to my video" - Explainer videos: "Make an explainer video about my service" - Real-looking photos: "Make a photo of a customer using my product" - Ad and post images: "Make an image for my next post" - Photo edits: "Remove the background from my product photo" - Straight to an ad or post: "Turn my newest video into a Meta ad" ## AI Receptionist and business phone number - Customers call. Your AI Receptionist answers. It also replies to texts and chats with visitors on your website. - Take calls yourself. Set yourself to Available and answer calls to your number in your browser. - Follow-ups go out on a schedule. Emails, texts and AI calls to every new contact. The AI Receptionist: - Transfers callers to you - Takes messages - Rings your team first - Your choice of name, voice and language - Knows your hours, services and prices - A chat or voice button on your site ## Call, text and email your customers yourself (Contacts and CRM) - Call, text or email any contact. Open a contact and click Call, Text or Email. Calls and texts go out from your Business Phone Number. - Answer calls in your browser. Set yourself to Available. When a customer calls your Business Phone Number, click Answer and talk. Set Unavailable when you are busy. - Everyone in one list. Contacts holds everyone who calls, texts, chats with your site or fills in a form, with each call and message on their page. ## More requests ### Talk to Buildy - Chat: "What should I do next for my business?" - Voice call: "How do I talk to Buildy by voice?" - Memory: "What do you remember about my business?" - YouTube links: "Write my About page from this YouTube video" - PDFs and files: "Build a page from this PDF" ### Plan your business - Market research: "Research my top 3 competitors" - Offer and audience: "Help me pick my best customer and offer" - Sales copy: "Rewrite my home page to sell better" - Business Profile: "Update my business hours and prices" - Auto-replies: "How do I turn on auto-replies for texts and emails?" ### Build and sell - Online store: "Build an online store for my products" - Payments: "Add a pay button to my site" - Domain and email: "Find a domain name for my business" - Lead forms: "Add a contact form that saves leads to Contacts" - Import your website: "Import my current website" - Visual Editor: "How do I use the Visual Editor?" - Undo anything: "How do I undo my last change?" ## Common questions about Buildy ### What is Buildy? Buildy is an AI website builder and marketing assistant for small businesses. You tell it what you need in a chat, and it builds and hosts your website, makes your ads and videos, answers your phone and keeps your customer list. ### Who is Buildy for? Small business owners, local services, coaches, experts and founders who want a website and marketing without hiring a developer or an agency. ### Do I need to know how to code? No. You describe what you want in plain words, and Buildy writes the code. You can still download your code at any time. ### How much does Buildy cost? Paid plans start at $24 a month. The Pro plan has a 10-day free trial: you add a card and pay nothing until day 10. A Business Phone Number, video credits and domain renewals cost extra. ### Can Buildy build and host my website? Yes. Describe your business in chat and Buildy builds the site. Click Publish to put it live. Every site gets a free link, and you can add your own domain. ### Can I use my own domain name? Yes. Buy a domain in Buildy, or connect one you already own from GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare or any other registrar. ### How is Buildy different from Wix or Squarespace? With Wix or Squarespace you edit a template yourself. With Buildy you describe what you want and it builds the site for you. Buildy also makes your ads, answers your phone and follows up with your leads. ### Can Buildy run my ads? Buildy creates ads for Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, X and OpenAI and saves them as drafts. You connect your ad account and publish. The ad network bills you for the spend. ### Does Buildy post ads or social posts without my approval? No. Buildy saves ads, social posts and broadcasts as drafts. Nothing goes out until you approve it. ### Can Buildy answer my business phone? Yes. Your AI Receptionist answers calls and texts on your Business Phone Number, takes messages and transfers callers to you. You can also answer calls yourself in your browser. ### Can I call, text and email my customers from Buildy? Yes. Open a contact and click Call, Text or Email. Calls and texts go out from your Business Phone Number, which needs a paid plan. ## The full list Each item links to its Help Center guide. Add .md to a guide URL for Markdown. ### Build - [Website or app from chat](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/chat-with-buildy) - [Forms and lead capture](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/add-forms-and-capture-leads) - [Customer accounts and login](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/add-user-accounts-and-login) - [Members-only pages](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/require-login-on-pages) - [AI features in your app](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/add-ai-features) - [Import your website](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/import-your-website) - [Visual Editor](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/visual-editor) - [Undo with Checkpoint History](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/checkpoint-history) - [Copy a project with a remix link](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/copy-a-project-with-remix-link) - [Export your code](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/export-your-code) ### Talk to Buildy - [Chat](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/chat-with-buildy) - [Voice call in your project](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/talk-by-voice) - [Call Buildy from your phone](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/agents/call-buildy-from-your-phone) - [Get better results](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/get-what-you-want) - [Install Buildy on your phone](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/account/install-buildy-app) ### Ads - [Meta ads](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/meta-ads) - [Google ads](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/google-ads) - [TikTok ads](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/tiktok-ads) - [LinkedIn ads](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/linkedin-ads) - [X ads](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/x-ads) - [OpenAI ads](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/openai-ads) - [Ad and post results](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/analyze-marketing-performance) ### Images and video - [Images](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/generate-images) - [Short videos](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/generate-videos) - [Song ads and voiceovers](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/generate-videos) - [Captions and end cards](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/generate-videos) - [Upload images and files](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/add-images-and-files) - [Use a YouTube video as a source](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/add-images-and-files) ### Social and content - [Facebook posts](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/post-to-facebook) - [Instagram posts](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/post-to-instagram) - [LinkedIn posts](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/post-to-linkedin) - [TikTok posts](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/post-to-tiktok) - [X posts](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/post-to-x) - [Pinterest posts](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/connect-social-accounts) - [Review and approve posts](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/use-the-queue) - [Blog](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/blog-and-content) - [Market research](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/market-research) - [SEO and AI search ranking](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/publish/seo-and-ai-ranking) ### Customers - [AI Receptionist](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/agents/ai-receptionist) - [Business Phone Number](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/agents/business-phone-number) - [Auto-replies](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/auto-replies) - [Contacts](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/agents/contacts) - [Call, text or email a contact](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/agents/contacts) - [Answer calls in your browser](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/agents/business-phone-number) - [Follow-ups](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/agents/follow-ups) - [Email and text broadcasts](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/email-sms-broadcasts) - [Business Profile](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/marketing/business-profile) ### Sell - [Stripe payments](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/payments/accept-payments-with-stripe) - [Online store](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/payments/build-an-online-store) ### Go live - [Publish your site](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/publish/publish-your-site) - [Installable app and site settings](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/publish/website-settings) - [Buy a domain](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/domains-email/buy-a-domain) - [Connect your own domain](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/domains-email/connect-your-own-domain) - [Send email from your domain](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/domains-email/email-sending) - [Email inbox](https://www.buildy.ai/docs/domains-email/email-inbox)